Reviews: Card, Melanie

Ward Against Death —
Melanie Card
Chronicles of a Reluctant Necromancer, book 1

2011’s
Ward
Against Death is
the first volume in Melanie
Card’s Chronicles
of a Reluctant Necromancer.

The
meet-cute between Ward De’Ath and Celia Carlyle is an unpromising
one. He is a branded criminal (thanks to his interest in the
unsavoury surgical arts1);
she is the daughter of a lord. Not only that, but when they first
meet, Celia is quite dead.

Still,
love will find a way. And if love doesn’t, necromancy definitely can.